<p>So It's the 6th time I've failed this math class I don't think I or my math book can survive another semester. I got (another W). I need 150 to grad. but I keep failing 120...</p>
<p>practice, practice and practice… you need to sit down at least 1 hour a day and just do math exercises! Don’t waste your time trying to memorize, just practice untill you can see a problem and automatically solve it</p>
<p>Any idea why you are continuing to fail this class? Have you worked with the instructor? Do you attend all the classes and office hours? Does your instructor have any suggestions on how you can do better next time you take the course? Have you ever been evaluated for a learning disability? How have you done in math prior to this? Any idea what about this course makes you have such a tough time?</p>
<p>Once you start figuring out the answers to these questions, things will become clearer. Your advisor may also be able to help you perhaps find an instructor you can work better with and/or if there are other rourses you could substitute ofr these.</p>
<p>You need to take this into the counseling center and get some diagnostic help now. Many students overlook this resource. If you have any processing or disgraphia issues, math can be difficult because you just write things down wrong. There are some simple techniques that are mechanical to help keep you focused on where the numbers belong when you work a problem. </p>
<p>Beyond that, agree with going to the professor (or TA)after every class and going back over the class and homework until you understand that day’s work. Doing the same thing over again, just taking the class and using the book, and expecting a different result will not work.</p>
<p>If you absolutely must pass this class to graduate, you will probably need to work one-on-one with a tutor – and quite extensively – to do so.</p>
<p>Is there a math help center at your school? If there is, that might be the best place to go to line up a tutor. Or you could try to find one through the advising center or your own academic advisor.</p>
<p>“Have you ever been evaluated for a learning disability?” </p>
<p>No, but I do have documents that would support my case…</p>
<p>How would I phrase an email? How much do I tell them?</p>
<p>Maybe take it at a local community college over the summer so you can focus on one class.</p>
<p>did that FAILED</p>
<p>It sounds as if you need much more personal attention to figure out why you’re not getting it. Depending on circumstances, I ditto getting a good and experienced tutor, one who can determine what your issues might be, and possibly evaluating whether you have some specific learning disability that might be helped by therapy. Do you do fine in other subjects - just not math? That could help determine if you have a LD or are just terrible at learning math. You wouldn’t be the first who has no head for math but is otherwise fine.</p>
<p>Yep tried that…$200/week for a semester pretty much my entire paycheck went into that…didn’t help</p>
<p>I don’t know. Is this something that’s important to you? If it were me, I’d be inclined to go to the powers that be and see if you can negotiate something–another class. Seems to me any school that lets you fail the same class six times has an administrative screw loose.</p>
<p>BTW: What is Math 120? Basic Algebra? Geometry? Calculus? Statistics? Linear Programming?</p>
<p>Also: Can you do the homework? How are your quizzes? Do you understand the problems and how to figure out the answers? Where in the process do you fail?</p>
<p>If you fail at the end of chapter 3, then the rest of the semester is a waste. Math builds upon itself. You need to somehow nail each topic as it comes up, and not go on until you do.</p>
<p>wabash:</p>
<p>What do YOU think the problem is?</p>